Western cyclone., 1887-07-29
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Dy che drought and wells are drying UP.
hrs. Cleveland Thursday celebrated her
zSd birthday anniversary very quietly at
Oak View.
ID. Katkoff, editor Of the Moscow Gazette.
who was thought to be convalescen' has had
q relapse and is now dying.
The artesian well now being bored at Gen.
eseo. ILL.,, Is Loss feet deep and flows about
200 gallons of water a minute.
Three hundred and fifty houses have been
destroyed by fire in Svenjany Russia, and
1000 persons were made homeless
A decision has been rendered granting n
perpetual injunction against the Globe Tele-
phone Company infringing on the Bell Com
p0ny.
Society people in Racine, Wis, are agog
over the arrival of the Count and Countess
Frenfanceli, who have arrived from Italy Oh
their wedding tour.
Timothy Grady was found guilty OF muir
dering Officer O'Brien by a Chicago iurv
yesterday and his punishment fixed at seven
teen years in the penitentiary.
Mary Josephine Kiman, Mother Emilia.
Superiore0S Of tho Order of Sisters of St.
Mary, in America, died last night at TIE
home convent Of the order in Lockport, n. Y.
Bill and Amer Green, the murderers of
Hnos Brumbaush and Luella Mabbitt, were
secretly taken from LoganspOrt, Ind, to
Michigan City prison last night for safe
keeping.
Robert Garrett has been sued by Ives and
Staynor for the performance Of q contract
by which he was to deliver to them q con-
trolling interest In the Baltimore g. Ohio
company.
A gypsy horse trader named Meets and
his wife, who had in their possession Anthony
Carmody, aged 8, who was stolen from his
home in Lincoln, ILL.,, have been arrested at
Bloomington
bridge near Perrysville, Ill.,, gave wav
yesterday under traction engine, which
fell twenty feet below to the creek bed.
Bobert Baker, aged 26, the engineer, was so
badly scalded that he died this morning.
Miss Josie Holmes, who was the exchange
clerk of the late Fidelity National bank, Gin
cinnati, and whose visits and consultations
with E. L. Harper, late vice-president Of the
bank, caused his removal to the county Jail.
has been arrested.
John Gouger Of New Lennox VIII county.
ILL.,, lost five cattle by the Texas fever this
week. 1t was brought by lot OF Texas
cattle belonging to Burke Bros, who were
driving herd to Chicago and stopped there
over night Sixteen cattle in Manhattan died
last week
Tie President and party arrived In " aShe
tngton at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning.
The published reports Of yellow fever In
Memphis, Tenn, are denied by officials OF
hat city.
Timothy Grady, on trial at Chicago for
Che murder Of Officer O'Brien, is trying to
prove an alibL
Michael Lynch, the Chicago tough, hi
been held for the murder of Officer HallorAA
Saturday night
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., the well-known story
writer, died in Hyde Park, near Boston,
Wednesday, of pneumonia He was born in
1923
Oscar J. Harvey, the Treasury Depart
ment forger, has pleaded guilty and was SEN
fenced to twelve years imprisonment at hard
labor.
Mary E. Coleman of La Porte, Ind, was
drugged by Chicago tough, taken to the
latter city in an unconscious state and
robbed.
There is movement on foot to secure q
pardon for tho notorious "Joe" Mackin, in
the Illinois penitentiary for i've years for
forgery.
Asa P. Grover, a member Of the family
from whom President Cleveland received his
given name, died at Georgetown, KY.
Wednesday.
Jimmy Weeden, the middle-weight prize
lighter, was shot and probably fatally injured
in his saloon at Pittsburg, Wednesday night,
by Jack Thompson
A man supposed to be Albert Cook, want
Cd for killing his mother-in-law and wife at
Campton, Kane county, ILL.,, on the 9th OF
October, 1885, has been arrested at Mime
apolis.
John Ham ilton, colored, attempted 70 a.
sault Delphi Ross, also colored, at Coal
Greek, Tenn, Wednesday, when she resisted
and shot Hamilton dead. The girl was ar
rested
The Afghan boundary question has been
settled, Russia receiving the territory lying
between the Kusk and tie MurghAb rivers
and accepting the English frontier line On
the OxuS
ploded on the farm of Edward Stroud, near
Newark Del, and killed Stroud and a l4-
year old colored boy instantly, besides bady
Scalding two other mn
The liquor dealers who are favoring the
new whisky pool were closely closeted al OF
Wednesday at the Pacific Hotel, Chicago,
with a lookout before the doors 20 prevent
any attentions on the part OF the repor SerA
Gen Van der Smissen, commanding et
Brussels, created a sensation by a speech lie
made alter q review Of the army, violently
attacking Parliament for its course in reject
ing the clause in the army bill relating 70
personal service.